Category: Packrafting
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Cost/Benefit
The question which is, when attached to outdoor gear, the most relevant (and certainly most interesting) of all. Is item X worth it? The first photo ever posted on Bedrock & Paradox: me riding my old Gunnar Rockhound on Mt Elden, AZ in the summer of 2006. It’s a good point of departure. wondering if…
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Future plans
Bill Hatcher photo; the legendary Dial-Tobin-Adkins Alaska Range bike traverse. Look at that tiny pack! The past weekend of fun and the extensive germ exposure of my job caught up to me, and I’ve spent the past two days feeling achey and sluggish, trying to not get any more ill. Hopefully it works. Life up…
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Packrafting the Grand Canyon
Super stylish route (with a massive shuttle) by the east coasters. It is great news that multiple permitted packraft trips, with unconventional entry and exit points, have been completed. Hopefully it will open the door to even more, and more hopefully, to a blending of the backcountry and river permitting process that would be less…
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2010: in review
Running through all these Christmases is the sense of an emotional cadenza at the end of the year, a braiding of feelings like hope, renewal, nostalgia, love, joy and exhaustion. Yet in the stories about this holiday, it’s surprising how often we’re reminded of a darker life, full of isolation, penury, greed, despair and the…
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Perhaps this weekend?
Trip planning is an equisite art. The mechanical side has, and continues to be, revolutionized by technology. Six years ago M and I lived in Moab, and quickly stockpiled USGS quads because they were the only source for detailed topographic information about most of Utahs backcountry canyons. That is no longer the case. Travis from…
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LaSportiva Crossleather review
ExecSum: The shoe marries aggressive, sticky tread with a flexible, low profile midsole and a very durable leather upper, creating a combination unique amongst current trail running and hiking shoes. It does so by increasing the weight relative to mesh shoes, by decreasing the draining speed, and by substantially increasing the drying time. Review: Back…
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The Ultimate Trip and Gearlist(s)
It’s 2F outside as I sit here in the comfy chair, sipping coffee from the 28 oz Yellowstone NP trout mug. Our neighbor two house down just, as he does whenever snow gives him the chance, cruised by in the process of snowblowing the entire sidewalk on this side of the street. He greated/accosted me…
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Early Winter
Harrison Lake. In the previous two years autumn has lasted almost until the solstice, with snow and single digit (F) temps waiting until mid-December. This year, everything seems to be a month ahead. I approve. It is a few weeks process getting acclimated to winter. The psychological and physiological aspects of cold adaptation cannot be…
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Packrafting defined
St. Mary Lake from 500′ up. 50 mph winds and oceanic swells. I was introduced to boating and skiing early in life, in the normal ways: canoeing, whitewater rafting, downhill skiing in area, XC skiing on track skis. All were fun for short periods, but none resonated especially well. Until the last few years, that…
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Twothousandeleven
I finished the first part of the year in review video last night, so it is now time to start thinking about next year (like we haven’t all been assembling race calenders for a month already; I’m waiting on the Classic to set a date). On Sunday night I slept restlessly, and as the alarm…
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